Word: giftedness
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Kuehn and 37 other young adults owe their progress to a dynamic 62-year-old school secretary turned educator. Recalls Doris Walker: "I was a little old lady in tennis shoes to my classmates when I went back to college to get a degree in special education." With her new...
"I'm not the most naturally gifted athlete," he added, "but I'm a team player."
Erdman, who has a degree from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Basel, did what many other gifted men have done when confronted with enforced leisure. He wrote a novel. The Billion Dollar Sure Thing (1973) involved the President of...
The work on view ranges from Symbolists like Paul Serusier to gifted postmodernists like Bruno Ceccobelli; from mannered Rosicrucians and a little- known visionary named Hilma af Klint to Marsden Hartley, Georgia O'Keeffe and Jasper Johns. Nor does it leave out that durable old alchemist, Marcel Duchamp. It also...
Cleveland's defensive secondary was similarly gifted but vain. Cornerbacks Hanford Dixon and Frank Minnifield barked like dogs at their own great plays. Bones began to fly out of the grandstands, and a wooden doghouse became a bleacher fixture (until one Sunday a security guard noticed it took more fans...